...priest, part prophet, and part poet. His role, he announced toward the end of "The American Scholar," was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (CW, 1:62). This definition of a highly social role, a role as a leader, a shaper of public opinion,...

...other. . . . Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary."20 Ultimately the role of Man Thinking is "to cheer, to raise and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."21 So it is that intellectuals become the high priests of a brave new world of American...

...than the learning derived from books and teachers. And once Man Thinking has been created, his duties "may all be comprised in self-trust. The office of...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances." Anticipating that society, especially educated society, will scorn the scholar who follows his own...

...calls (American) scholars, to whom he had given warning in his earlier, most famous address to them: The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. . . . Long he must stammer in his speech; often forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must...

...first powerful or cautionary or lovely effect. "The office of the scholar," he wrote in "The American Scholar," "is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances." The lofty fun of it is that his "appearances" were all merely material and temporal — brick walls,...

...scholar that both does and does not lend itself to Howe's generalizations: "They [ie, these offices] are such as become Man Thinking. They may all be comprised...slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation." 6 No sooner does Emerson assign significant work to the scholar—cheering, raising, and guiding men—than...

...have now spoken of the education of the scholar ... It remains to say somewhat of his duties. They are such as become Man Thinking. They may all be comprised in self-trust. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, I8372 Despite criticisms that The Una newspaper was only fond of "talking of...

...himself and himself in Nature, inspired into action by the best books, the American scholar's duty is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing...slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation." While this might subject "Man Thinking" to poverty, scorn, and solitude, there would be benefits: "For...

...what other generations have done — men who are creative, inventive, and discoverers. — JEAN PIAGET The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amid appearances. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, FROM HIS BOOK THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR; SELF-RELIANCE; COMPENSATION...

...splendor an integrated and fully quickened "Man Thinking!' This harmonizing thinker, whose duty was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (EL 63), would accomplish his task by employing the resources of Nature, books, and action. And he...